Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries at the New Museum (2008, 62.5MB, 2:48 min) If you don t know them, you should; Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries have been responsible for some of the most spine tingling evocative work on the net in the last ten years, This documentary, lifted from the indispensable Rhizome, gives a good bares bones historical account of them in the context of a show earlier this year at the New Museum. I didn t see the show whilst I m pleased they re getting this wider exposure I wonder if there isn t something quite particular about the way their work presents in a browser (preferably, in my view, with headphones on, ie. as submerged in these delicious fractured quasi narratives as only the net experience will allow). Then, it is visceral and immediate. On the evidence here, there seems to have been something a little more diffuse about this multiple screen installation. I don t know; it s a surmise; I d be happy to be told I m wrong. It raises interesting questions, though, about the transplanting of work from browser to gallery.
